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Author: Layamon Publisher: DigiCat ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 199
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Layamon's Brut is a Middle English poem assembled and remold by the vicar Layamon. The Brut relates the history of Britain and is the main historiography created in English since the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
Author: Layamon Publisher: DigiCat ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 199
Book Description
Layamon's Brut is a Middle English poem assembled and remold by the vicar Layamon. The Brut relates the history of Britain and is the main historiography created in English since the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
Author: Layamon Publisher: Longman Publishing Group ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 928
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At sixteen-thousand lines long, Layamon's Brut, written c.1200-1220, is the second longest poem in the English language. This national epic celebrates a myth, largely invented by Geoffrey of Monmouth, in his Historia (1138) and elaborated by the Jerseyman Wace (1155), of a Britain founded by Trojan refugees, repeatedly beset by foreign invasions and internal treachery across the centuries, triumphantly unified under such heroes as Uther Pendragon and Arthur. It marks the revival of English literature, breaking the virtual silence which followed the last entries in the Anglo Saxon Chronicle, and the beginnings of an Arthurian tradition which was to lead to Malory, to Tennyson and on to our own age. Here, for the first time in eight centuries, the poem is published complete and fully edited with modern punctuation and paragraphing. The text is accompanied by textual notes and commentary which take account of the most recent scholarship, and is presented in parallel with a close, literal translation. Unique to this edition, textual divisions expose the thematic structure of the work.
Author: J. A. Burrow Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 1118697359 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 451
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This essential Middle English textbook, now in its third edition, introduces students to the wide range of literature written in England between 1150 and 1400. New, thoroughly revised edition of this essential Middle English textbook. Introduces the language of the time, giving guidance on pronunciation, spelling, grammar, metre, vocabulary and regional dialects. Now includes extracts from 'Pearl' and Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'. Bibliographic references have been updated throughout. Each text is accompanied by detailed notes.
Author: Jennifer Jahner Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1316732207 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 689
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History writing in the Middle Ages did not belong to any particular genre, language or class of texts. Its remit was wide, embracing the events of antiquity; the deeds of saints, rulers and abbots; archival practices; and contemporary reportage. This volume addresses the challenges presented by medieval historiography by using the diverse methodologies of medieval studies: legal and literary history, art history, religious studies, codicology, the history of the emotions, gender studies and critical race theory. Spanning one thousand years of historiography in England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland, the essays map historical thinking across literary genres and expose the rich veins of national mythmaking tapped into by medieval writers. Additionally, they attend to the ways in which medieval histories crossed linguistic and geographical borders. Together, they trace multiple temporalities and productive anachronisms that fuelled some of the most innovative medieval writing.
Author: Wace Publisher: DigiCat ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 149
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'The Brut' or 'Roman de Brut' by the poet Wace is a loose and expanded translation in almost 15,000 lines of the Norman-French verse of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Latin History of the Kings of Britain. Its genre is equivocal, being more than a chronicle but not quite a fully-fledged romance.The book narrates a largely fictional version of Britain's story from its settlement by Brutus, a refugee from Troy, who gives the poem its name, through a thousand years of pseudohistory, including the story of king Leir, up to the Roman conquest, the introduction of Christianity, and the legends of sub-Roman Britain, ending with the reign of the 7th-century king Cadwallader. Especially prominent is its account of the life of King Arthur, the first in any vernacular language, which instigated and influenced a whole school of French Arthurian romances dealing with the Round Table – here making its first appearance in literature – and with the adventures of its various knights.
Author: Layamon
Author: Layamon
Author: Layamon
Author: Layamon
Author: Layamon
Author: Layamon
Author: Layamon
Author: Layamon
Author: J. A. Burrow
Author: Jennifer Jahner
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